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End of the day in Goffs, California. The late day light is awesome, and this GP-30 has its shades drawn.
October 11, 1996.
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My last post involving Custodes was around 4 months ago. Since then, a lot of stuff has happened, both on the 40k front and in my personal life.
First and foremost, the ongoing crusade that I’m helming is in full swing. The eastern front grows evermore saturated with xenos scum, and on the west coast, an endless tide of Goffs crashes against Space Marine vanguard forces made up of Thunderbearers and my brother’s Ultramarines Successors, the Cobalt Lancers.
This has been our most active turn by far. While threats to the Imperium cover every inch of this doomed land, the Inquisition has ordered Imperial forces to secure the crashed planetary fragment at all costs— orders that have re-shifted the goal of the Calthradian Crusade for many. The Cobalt Lancers arrived to the planet alongside these Inquisitorial orders, and immediately made to relieve their Thunderbearers brothers.
They were, of course, met by Orks, in what would become the Battle of Deadside Pass. Deadside Pass is the name of a tight, mountainous passageway from the beachhead— the only entrance from the coast to the mainland. The Cobalt Lancers positioned themselves in the pass, waiting to stop any Orks pushing through.
Unfortunately for the Cobalt Lancers, Rex Manticore, the Goffs leader, had only grown from his encounter with the Thunderbearers. The Goffs wiped the Ultramarines, claiming the pass. Now the Thunderbearers make way to strike back against the Orks, and to reclaim the pass.
Meanwhile, the Cobalt Lancers move towards the objective: the fragment.
This is the “thing” from last post: the moon fragment that the Cobalt Lancers are moving towards. I wanted to try and make a cool set piece for this special story mission, and I think it went pretty well. All of this shit is from a nearby craft store and it was mostly just styrofoam and acrylic paint.
She’s gross! I’m very happy with this and I think it was a great learning experience. You can just do fucking anything with cardboard, it’s crazy.
So this is the mission objective. But who will the Cobalt Lancers be fighting for it?
Shadowkeepers. Finally putting paint on these dudes after like, 6 months, and I’m excited to pull them out for this story mission, as well. It should be very fun. My brother doesn’t have any experience fighting Custodes, either, so it’ll be grand to see his reaction when he realizes that he can’t shoot any of them unless he has AP weapons.
The main thing holding me back from finishing these dudes was my unfinished Lockwarden, but I bit the bullet and just finished him. Here he is. While it isn’t quite the hooded weirdo I wanted it to be, the helmet’s brutality does convey “warden,” and the seals help to convey the esoteric nature of the Shadowkeepers. He’s suitably intimidating and cool, and with all my men built and based, I can sit my goofy ass down and finish them. The next step is those bases; green stuff & fancy rollers are a bit out of my pay grade at the moment, so I’ll likely be hitting up the Michael’s and getting clay and whatever texture rollers they have there.
If there’s something I’ve learned, it’s that it takes me forever to finish anything. It’s taken me around 5 months to get these guys done. It took me around 5 months to finish my Intercessors. Maybe I’ve got a magic number thing going on.
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